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Sure, but while not quite the same level, my voicemail icon is a reel-to-reel tape and lots of "save" icons are floppy disks.
My wife and I occasionally wonder if our one year old will think we're crazy when we talk about "taping" a show.
And we're not helping 25 million prisoners escape from this starvation cult run by a megalomaniac child because? 1) China would get mad 2) No one would want the refugees 3) There's no will to help people you largely can't see 4) After deposing the Kim regime no one knows how to nation build while avoiding the usual quagmires. 5) Would cost too much money Am I missing anything or does that about cover it?
6) We respect the sovereignty of nations and don't randomly invade countries that are no threat to us Also, 4 is a really big point. Unless you annex NK and make it a colony, almost all precedent tells us that your plan would end in decades of civil war and a lot of suffering (or an equally brutal "democratic" regime).
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NK is not a Russian puppet, it's a Chinese puppet. (And it's a puppet gone rogue like Chucky.)
They are now, but they were aligned with the Soviets until there stopped being Soviets. Naturally they sought out a new patron after that.
But the point I was really trying to make is that calling NK anyone's puppet is not really accurate, and arguably never was. They are certainly dependent on China nowadays, but it is far from clear who is pulling whose strings.
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They are now, but they were aligned with the Soviets until there stopped being Soviets. Naturally they sought out a new patron after that.
Not quite. The SU started rolling back its support for NK in 1985, four years before the SU fell. In fact, it seems probable to me that NK didn't fall along with the rest of the SU precisely because of this. But the point I was really trying to make is that calling NK anyone's puppet is not really accurate, and arguably never was. They are certainly dependent on China nowadays, but it is far from clear who is pulling…
In any case, "puppet" was incidental to my comment, and I'm happy to let that go. My main point was that they were set up very similarly to the Warsaw Pact countries, so the similarity in language is entirely expected.
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Well, I hope for the head of the NK chief propaganda minister that the grand divine dictator's internet does not break down with all the traffic from Hacker News.. "Kim Jong Un, Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea, Chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army, visited the Sohae Space Centre to inspect the ground jet test of a new type high-power engine of…
I'm actually am having trouble accessing any of these NK sites at the moment. Verified that several sites are down at isitdownrightnow as well. Could be many things, of course. But if Hacker News traffic is enough to overload an entire country's Internet...
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It should remind you of that, since that's basically what they are. They're on the wrong side of Russia to be in the Warsaw Pact, but they follow the same basic model as other Soviet puppets, except for the part where they succumbed to revolution in the 90s.
NK is not a Russian puppet, it's a Chinese puppet. (And it's a puppet gone rogue like Chucky.)
Fascinating, that's the complete zone for the whole country? And it's run on 5 servers? (only 5 different IPs mentioned as far as I can tell)
Source: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-to-teach-computer-scien... (super interesting, suggest reading it)
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Sure, but while not quite the same level, my voicemail icon is a reel-to-reel tape and lots of "save" icons are floppy disks.
My wife and I occasionally wonder if our one year old will think we're crazy when we talk about "taping" a show.
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NK is not a Russian puppet, it's a Chinese puppet. (And it's a puppet gone rogue like Chucky.)
Just asking to nail down definition of "puppet": is SK a US puppet?
It has generally become unfashionable to have puppet states nowadays. They're too hard to maintain.